Janice Dickson

Thursday, August 17th, 2017 Ezra Levant. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit

Janice Dickson

Thursday, August 17th, 2017

The chaos at Rebel Media intensified today, with one former contributor asking pointed questions about how the hard-right online outlet uses reader contributions and founder Ezra Levant claiming in turn that heâs being âblac kmailed.â

âIâm being blackmailed. Iâm being extorted,â wrote Levant on his website in response to a video posted online Thursday by former contributor Caolan Robertson.

Robertson, who says he left Rebel Media two weeks ago, alleged in a lengthy YouTube video that Levant tried to pay him $20,000 to ensure he wouldnât speak publicly about what the organization does with the money it crowdfunds from supporters.

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